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Originally Posted by DrPhil
That's only a factor of who you're talking to and what you're reading/listening to. The work and organization scholars who criticize Walmart are doing so on the basis of how Walmart, in general, treats its employees which is classic capitalism and conflict perspective sentiments. It is also about what happens when Walmarts show up in areas that don't have other options. That's not classist. That's about the social class and race demographics of people who tend to have no choice but to shop at Walmart in some areas; and the social class and race of people who are most likely to have no choice but to work at Walmart. Exploitation of labor, exploitation of the consumer dollar, damn near monopolies in some areas, and an orgasmic capitalism experience on the part of the capitalists.
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I agree that it's just anecdotally what I'm hearing. But classist comments are, it seems, too often used as an argument among the general population rather than among scholars and academics. There are completely good reasons to oppose Walmart overall or the monster that it has become, I was simply pointing out that classism is frequently intertwined.
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Afterall, all "types of people" shop at Walmart. (I've been trying to keep some of my family and friends from it for years to no avail) That's why Walmart has taken over the country. It certainly didn't take over the country only because millions of working class and poor people (who some consider "trash") have no choice but to patron it.
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Very true. And personally, I shop there at times. Here they have the best selection of international products around, but they're less convenient than the grocery store (also a chain btw, I don't know many places that don't have regional or national grocery chains) so it's a toss up
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I have a book about the Walmartization of the world. Ama_zon also has some decent books about the cons and pros (the very few pros that there could be) of Walmart.
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lol at the parenthetical.
Personally I disagree, Walmart has a lot to offer. Are they evil sometimes? Yes. But do they do some things very well? Also yes.
But is it an issue of the 'kind' of person who shops there? Most emphatically no.